Blair Says Nix Niqabs!

According to this Tony Blair has jumped on the creepy and growing European anti-multi-culturalism band wagon.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

What I find jarring is the speed with which traditonally liberal Euro-democracies are questioning the validity of dogmatic multi-culturalism when confronted with stuanchly separatist Muslim communities (SSMC's as we call them in these parts.)

SSMCs you ask? Who says European Muslim communities are staunchly separatist? And what's with the generalization?

The interesting issue here is that the basics tenents of multi-culturalism was always somewhat stymied by the issue of separatism, be it black, queer or religious. But here we are 2006 with the the labour PM of one of the most tolerant of European democracies saying that signs of separation are not acceptable, or at least questionable, in the case of a specific group.

This used to be the job of the French. If these attitudes continue to erode with this speed across Western Europe, one wonders how quickly 40 years of social norm will vanish, and what type of turmoil it will cause.